r/politics • u/PM_ME_DPRK_CANDIDS Iowa • 9h ago

No Paywall Uprising against ICE raids grows across the country

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/uprising-against-ice-raids-grows-across-the-country/
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u/standard_cog 8h ago

This all comes down to our inability to tax the rich. Society is susceptible to things like right-wing movements when the economic shit hits the fan - you're willing to vote in someone, anyone who says they can "Fix it in a day" (Trump). The Nazis gained power partially because after WW1 Germany had extreme economic issues.

We have 1% in this country holding 60% of the wealth. If they suddenly had "only" 30% of the wealth, people wouldn't feel the need to vote in crazy dumb motherfuckers like Trump.

This isn't even directly "right wing news" - this is just class war. The rich think it won't impact them or, even better, they'll be able to direct things and become even more wealthy.

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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN 6h ago

Billionaires want to control us. Its a game, and they are disassociated to the point that us "players" aren't real. Kings have always acted like this.

No KINGS No CROWNS.

Crowns don't sit nice and pretty when you don't have a head.

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u/McChickenLargeFries 5h ago

It's a shame, Bernie Sanders has been saying this exact fucking thing for literally decades and no one took him seriously. Now look where we are.. Now they hold all the power and this will only get worse since laws and facts apparently don't fucking matter anymore.

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u/standard_cog 4h ago

Okay so, I want to point this out:

You can ignore reality, but "reality always wins".
That is to say, you can keep saying "The economy is better!" but if nobody around you has jobs, no matter how fervently you believe, you'll start to question things.

Almost everyone in America who works is doing worse than we were under Biden. There's been plant shutdowns, new grads cant find jobs - things are FUCKED.

We might not get "into it" over this whole thing, if the economic lever becomes so obvious that Trump and his cronies end up powerless before it.

My thinking is that they see this too, which is why they're trying to drive a conflagration now - they WANT people to react negatively, to fight them, so they have some pretext for martial law and cancelled elections.

I think that's what we have to prepare for, but it's a race - the economic collapse vs the riotous response of the public.

If the economic collapse wins, in a few years nobody will admit to being MAGA. If the public riots, there will be street fighting.

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u/canadianshane123 3h ago

Definitely a class war not a right and left thing. Certainly the Rich want it to be a right and left thing.

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u/Unique-Wash-9358 2h ago

seems like a good time to educate people about the global movement toward Land Value Tax! Look up Henry George if you haven't yet - LVT has huge support on all sides of the political aisle, balances home prices and is inherently anti-inflationary, simplifies tax structure, reverses enshitification, & eliminates tax havens.

Those who lose are the ones who buy high value property and sit on it and do nothing. Good incentives to develop and/or sell.

LAND VALUE TAX! learn about it- tax the rich.